{"product_id":"the-stone-door-leonora-carrington-paperback","title":"The Stone Door -- Leonora Carrington, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a celebration of the union of Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonora Carrington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2011) was born in Lancashire, England, to an industrialist father and an Irish mother. She was raised on fantastical folktales told to her by her Irish nanny at her family's estate, Crookhey Hall. A renowned artist as well as a writer, she lived a majority of her life in Mexico City, moving in a circle of like-minded artists that included Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Her surrealistic paintings and sculptures have been hosted in galleries and museums all over the world. A novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e; a memoir of madness, \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e; and an illustrated group of stories for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, are all available from New York Review Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leonora Carrington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850758246628,"sku":"9781681378947","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781681378947.jpg?v=1777186512","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-stone-door-leonora-carrington-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}